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unproductive

/ˌʌn.pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/

adjective

What it means

  1. Not productive; useless; fruitless.

    Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive.

  2. mechanisms of word formation; etc; mechanisms of word formation; etchuman sciencesNo longer used to produce new words (see examples).

In a sentence

Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  9. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  10. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  11. Proto-Indo-European*pro-
  12. Proto-Italic*pro-
  13. Latinprō-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*dewk-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*déwkti
  16. Proto-Italic*doukō
  17. Latindūcō
  18. Latinprōdūcō
  19. Late Latinprōductīvus
  20. Englishproductive
  21. Englishunproductive

From un- + productive.

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